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Interesting, but oddly told.
I remember trying 2 or 3 times to watch this movie when it made it to HBO or some cable channel years ago. I never finished it. So, when I saw it was on that 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list I thought it was worth a second look, but in book form this time. Well, I made it!
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Very damaged people come together at the end of World War II in a villa in Tuscanny over a badly burned pilot who could not be moved when the Allies moved out. Two ...more
I remember trying 2 or 3 times to watch this movie when it made it to HBO or some cable channel years ago. I never finished it. So, when I saw it was on that 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list I thought it was worth a second look, but in book form this time. Well, I made it!
My Version of the Story
Very damaged people come together at the end of World War II in a villa in Tuscanny over a badly burned pilot who could not be moved when the Allies moved out. Two ...more
Finished the book as I don't like abandoning them halfway through. Some of the threads started promisingly but drifted away and in the end the book was a struggle. And what was the story of Carravaggio again?.
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Powerful and poetic. I learned about parts of WWII that I had never learned about before, but the prose was beautiful.
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